ORATIG 


ruONOUNCED    AT    BO 


UN  THE  FOURTH  DAY  OF  JULY,  13U, 


BEFORE  THE 


SUPREME  EXECUTIVE 


IN    PRESENCE    OF    THE 


BUNKER-HILL  ASSOCIATION. 


BY  HENRY  A.   S.  DEARBORN,  M.  B.  A. 


PUBLISHED    BY   REqWKST- 


BOSTON: 
PRINTED  BY  MUNROE  &  FRENCH, 

PRINTERS    TO    THE    STATE. 

1811. 


CHESTNUT  HILL,  MASS. 


lis 


ORATION. 


FRIENDS  AND  FELLOW-CITIZENS, 

WHEN  the  patriot,  statesman  and  hero  of  future 
generations,  shall  read  the  history  of  that  instructive 
period,  from  the  dawn  of  our  revolution  to  the  present 
momentous  epoch,  with  what  glowing  enthusiasm  must 
they  dwell  on  the  annals  of  that  perilous,  but  glorious 
warfare,  which  eventuated  in  the  effectual  establishment 
of  an  Independent  Government. 

Until  the  rights  of  subjugated  man,  were  proclaimed 
in  the  western  continent,  by  the  adventurous  and  hardy 
champions  of  liberty,  the  world  had  been  bound  in  the 
manacles  of  slavery,  since  Caesar's  towering  ambition 
induced  him  to  trample  on  the  sacred  rights  of  his 
deluded  countrymen.  When  the  conqueror  of  the 
world  halted  his  victorious  squadrons  on  the  banks  of 
the  Rubicon,  the  destinies  of  empires  were  poised  in 
awful  equilibrium.  £j 

It  was  not,  whether  the  devastaljpi  of  Germany,  and 
plundering  warrior  of  subjugated  Gaul,  should  sway 
the  imperial  sceptre,  or  disband  his  triumphant  legions 
beyond  the  ramparts  of  freedom  ;  but  whether  the  labori- 
ous efforts  of  civilized  man, in  the  advancement  of  science 
and  establishment  of  his  natural  rights,  should  end  by 
the  irresistible  supremacy  of  a  military  despot,  or 
extend  the  blessings  of  liberty  to  the  farthest  confines 
of  the  globe.  It  was  not  the  pause  of  patriotic  virtue,, 
where  conflicting  reason  left  unmarked  the  path  of  recti- 


tude  ;  doubtful  to  retire  from  the  portentous  storms  of 
civil  discord,  or  with  his  returning  armies  establish  on 
a  lasting  basis  rational  independence,  and  governmental 
prosperity,  by  distracting  the  patricidal  machinations  of 
unprincipled  ambition  and  arresting  in  their  proud  career 
the  infuriated  partizans  of  licentious  rebellion — but  the 
wary  hesitation  of  a  remorseless  tyrant,  estimating  the 
dangers  of  premeditated  usurpation  and  the  precarious 
chances  of  eventual  success. 

It  was  not  the  guardian  contemplation  of  an  illustri- 
ous Roman  citizen,  watchful  of  national  honor,  dwelling 
with  magnanimous  solicitude  on  the  accumulating 
wrongs  of  internal  faction,  but  the  cold  reflections  of  a 
relentless  despot,  concentrating  the  collected  energies  of 
his  vigorous  and  expansive  mind  on  those  desperate 
designs  which  involved,  not  only  the  ruin  of  his  coun- 
try, but  broke  down  the  opposing  barriers  of  Gothic 
barbarism,  wrapt  in  clouds  of  ignorance  and  supersti- 
tion succeeding  generations,  and  spread  the  broad  mantle 
of  a  long  and  dreary  night  over  depopulated  empires, 
which  might  have  flourished  under  the  meridian  efful- 
gence of  extended  science  through  centuries  which  now 
leave  a  melancholy  blank  in  the  annals  of  mankind. 

Individual  aggrandizement  and  personal  revenge  rent 
asunder  the  social  bonds  of  domestic  tranquility  ;  gen- 
eral commotion  and  wild  misrule  raging  with  ungovern- 
able and  demoralizing  fury,  subverted  the  stupendous 
foundations  of  popular  government.  Justice  was  hurled 
from  her  seat ;  her  statutes  obliterated  ;  and  her  sacred 
courts  converted  into  the  polluted  tribunal  of  lawless 
oppression.  The  Genius  of  Literature  was  haunted 
from  her  Tusculian  groves,  and  the  arts  and  sciences 
buried  in  an  Herculanium  of  oblivion.     The  inflexible 


advocate  of  the  people's  rights,  were  either  expelled  the 
Senate  Chamber,  ostracised,  or  immolated  on  the  reek- 
ing altars  of  patriotism,  by  the  encrimsoned  sword  of 
slaughtering  persecution.  The  massy  pillars  of  liberty 
were  subverted,  and  the  mutilated  fragments  of  hei 
prostrated  temples  scattered  over  the  wide  spread  ruins 
of  devastation.  The  last  refuge  of  freedom  was  des- 
troyed. 

From  the  decline  of  the  Western  Empire,  the  history 
of  the  world  unfolds  but  melancholy  recitations  of 
bloodshed,  ignorance,  superstition  and  ignominious  vas- 
salage. If  illustrious  examples  of  individual  greatness, 
splendid  instances  of  heroic  virtue,  and  the  philanthropic 
efforts  of  superior  genius,  sometimes  fling  a  transient 
gleam  athwart  the  dreary  waste,  like  the  unfrequent  flash 
of  the  vollicd  lightning  through  the  nocturnal  storm, they 
serve  but  to  display  the  tremendous  horrors  of  the  over- 
whelming gloom. 

The  unalienable  and  indefeasible  rights  of  man,  had 
not  been  strenuously  asserted,  and  effectually  maintain- 
ed until  the  insulted  and  outraged  citizens  of  these 
United  States  indignantly  revolted  at  the  arbitrary  impo- 
sitions of  imperious  Britain,  and  bid  defiance  to  the 
haughty  mandates  of  regal  vengeance. 

Those  primary  and  fundamental  principles  of  a  well 
organized  government,  which  for  ages  had  been  merely 
the  pleasing  theme  of  learned  disquisition,  or  theoretical 
speculation,  were  by  the  adventurous  advocates  of  free- 
dom, established  as  the  broad  basis  of  an  Independent 
Republic.  The  combined  energies  of  an  exasperated 
and  heroic  nation,  were  marshalled  in  hostile  battalia, 
for  the  vindication  of  those  inestimable  sentiments 
which  were  implanted  in  the  breast  of  every  Americam 


nerved  the  patriot's  arm  with  vigor  and  enkindled  the 
emulative  enthusiasm  of  an  undaunted  people,  determin- 
ed to  maintain  their  natural  and  indisputable  rights,  or 
perish  in  the  glorious  conflict.  Succeeding  generations 
will  peruse  the  historic  volume  of  the  revolution,  with 
wonder  and  admiration.  What  scene  more  magnificent 
can  be  depictured  to  an  enlightened  mind,  than  a  whole 
nation  rising  in  the  majesty  of  their  collected  strength, 
and  proclaiming  to  the  astonished  universe,this  irrevoca- 
ble declaration,  that  all  mankind  are  born  free  and  equal, 
and  that  "  these  United  States  were,  and  of  right  ought 
to  be,  free  sovereign,  and  independent." 

When  the  impartial  American  in  future  times  shall 
run  the  broad  parralkl  of  the  unequal  belligerents, 
incredulity  at  the  momentous  events  and  glorious  result 
of  that  arduous  struggle,  ought  not  to  derogate  from 
his  understanding,  and  cannot  attach  to  his  heart  the 
damning  epithet  of  literary  ingratitude,  with  more  pro- 
priety than  to  the  modern  antiquarian,  who  regards  the 
fabulous  accounts  of  Greek"  and  Roman  origin  as  the 
visionary  chimeras  of  poetic  enthusiasm,  or  the  legen- 
dary tales  of  untutored  idolatry. 

Unappalled  by  the  sanguinary  denunciations  of  their 
implacable  enemies,  firm"  and  unshaken  amidst  the 
gathering  storm  which  threatened  ruin  and  devastation 
on  this  devoted  land,  each  patriot  breast  opposed  an 
impregnable  rampart  to  the  impetuous  assaults  of  law- 
less invasion.  The  strong  arm  of  hardy  valor  wielded 
the  irresistable  sword  of  emancipated  vengeance — the 
noblest  energies  of  enlightened  man,  were  roused  into 
generous  devotion  to  that  sacred  cause  which  demanded 
the  most  liberal  sacrifice  of  every  citizen. 


When  the  loud  clarion  of  battle  sounded  to  arms, 
the  determined  champions  of  their  country's  rights 
rushed  from  the  calm  enjoyment  of  domestic  tranquility 
to  the  field  of  slaughter;  unfurled  the  standard  of  lib- 
erty, and  appealing  to  the  God  of  armies  for  the  justice 
of  their  cause,  advanced  with  martial  intrepidity,  to 
certain  victory,  or  honorable  death. 

On  Bunker's  ever  memorable  heights,  was  first  dis- 
played that  lofty  spirit  of  invincible  patriotism,  which 
impelled  the  adventurous  soldier  to  brave  the  severest 
hardships  of  the  tented  field,  and  endure  in  northern 
climes  the  rugged  toils  of  war,  uncanopied  from  the 
boreal  storm  and  rude  inclemencies  of  Canadian  winter. 
On  that  American  Thermopylae,  where  wrapt  in  the 
dun*  smoke  of  wanton  conflagration  fought  the  assem- 
bled sovereigns  of  their  native  soil  the  everlasting 
bulwarks  of  freedom,  and  thrice  rolled  back  the  tre- 
mendous tide  of  war,  was  evinced  that  unconquerable 
intrepidity,  that  national  ardor  and  meritorious  zeal, 
which  secured  victory  on  the  plains  of  Saratoga,  stormed 
the  ramparts  of  Yorktown,  and  bore  the  bannered  eagle 
in  triumph  from  the  shores  of  the  Atlantic  to  the  farthest 
confines  of  the  wilderness. 

By  that  destructive  battle  were  awakened  the  most 
exalted  faculties  of  the  mind ;  reason  unrestrained  burst 
forth  in  the  plenitude  of  its  effulgence;  man  regenerated 
and  disenthralled,  beat  down  the  walls  of  slavish  incar- 
ceration, and  trampled  on  the  broken  chains  of  regal 
bondage  ;  the  vast  resources  of  an  emancipated  people 
were  called  into  generous  exertion.  An  enthusiastic 
spirit  of  independence  glowed  in  every  breast,  and 
spread  the  uncontaminated  sentiments  of  emulative  free- 
men, over  the  broad  extent  of  an  exasperated  republic. 


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1'he  united  energies  of  a  virtuous  people,  were  strenu- 
ously directed  to  the  effectual  accomplishment  of  national 
independence.  During  those  portentous  times  were 
achieved  the  most  honorable  deeds  which  arc  inscribed 
on  the  ever  during  records  of  fame.  Stimulated  by 
accumulating  wrongs,  and  elated  by  the  purest  feelings 
of  anticipated  success,  no  disastrous  events  could  check 
the  progress  of  their  arms ;  no  fascinating  allurements 
deflect  them  from  that  honorable  path  which  they  had 
sworn  to  pursue,  or  perish  in  the  hazardous  attempt. 

Inspired  by  the  guardian  Genius  of  Liberty,  no  bar- 
riers  could  oppose  their  impetuous  career.  Like  the 
"  Pontic  sea,  whose  icy  current  and  compulsive  course 
ne'er  feels  retiring  ebb,"  the  irrefluent  tide  of  freedom 
rolled  unrestrained.  By  the  courageous  virtue  o*our 
illustrious  heroes  were  secured  those  inestimable  bles. 
sings  which  we  have  since  enjoyed.  To  the  warriors 
and  statesmen  of  the  revolution  are  we  indebted  for  all 
those  distinguished  privileges,  which  place  the  citizens 
of  the  United  States  beyond  the  predatory  vengeance  of 
ruthless  oppression.  This  invaluable  inheritance  is  the 
prize  of  slaughter  acquired  by  the  lives  of  contending 
freemen,  secured  with  the  blood  of  battling  patriots. 

While  the  kingdoms  of  the  eastern  continent  have 
been  convulsed  by  the  ravages  of  war,  we  have  flourished 
in  the  sunshine  of  peace.  While  contending  armies 
have  depopulated  the  plains  of  Europe,  and  whitened 
her  fields  with  the  bones  of  her  slaughtered  inhabitants, 
the  agricultural  enterprize  of  our  industrious  citizens 
has  subdued  the  wilderness,  and  numerous  constella- 
tions rising  in  our  western  horizon,  have  increased  the 
splendor  of  our  political  galaxy. 


The  happiness  and  prosperity  of  a  nation  are  depen- 
dent on  peace  ;  wars  have  ever  been  productive  of  every 
vice  ;  corrupted  and  demoralized  society,  and  reduced 
to  poverty  and  misery  the  wretched  subjects  of  all  gov- 
ernments, which  have  been  involved  within  their  dread- 
ful vortex. 

Conscious  of  the  infinite  advantages  which  ought 
necessarily  to  result  from  a  state  of  impartial  neutrality , 
the  wise  administrators  of  our  general  government  have 
studiously  endeavored  by  the  prosecution  of  an  equita- 
ble and  impartial  policy  towards  the  belligerents  to  pre- 
serve unimpaired  our  national  rights.  But  an  amicable 
disposition  and  generous  forbearance,  has  been  con- 
strued into  contemptible  submission. 

racific  appeals  to  the  justice  and  honor  of  the  two 
great  hostile  powers  have  produced  only  reiterated  insult 
or  protracted  satisfaction.  The  established  laws  of  na- 
tions are  put  at  defiance,  and  our  citizens  forcibly  enslav- 
ed while  their  property  becomes  the  common  plunder  of 
licensed  robbery.  The  most  solemn  compacts  have  been 
wantonly  violated,  and  the  extent  of  our  wrongs  limited 
but  by  the  physical  power  of  effecting  injury.  Every 
honorable  arrangement  which  negociation  could  effect, 
proved  unsuccessful,  and  tended  but  to  multiply  causes 
of  complaint,  and  increase  the  already  enormous  sum 
of  our  aggravations. 

Unwilling  prematurely  to  plunge  the  nation  into  the 
miseries  of  war,  but  indignant  at  the  flagrant  violations 
of  our  commercial  rights,  a  system  of  measures  were 
adopted,  which,  if  they  had  been  faithfully  observed 
and  rigidly  enforced,  would  most  indubitably  have  com- 
pelled the  implacable  enemies  jof  neutrality  to  respect 


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our  flag,  and  give  speedy  compensation  for  those  nume- 
rous acts  of  unwarrantable  outrage  which  still  remain 
unredressed.     But  the  blasting  remains  of  that  restless 
faction,   which  frowned  on  the  evolving  hopes  of  man, 
struggling  for  his  stolen  birthright,  clandestinely  endea- 
vored to  palsy  the  efforts  of  freemen,  beared  the  sword 
of  regal  vengeance  against  their  native  country,   and 
stained  the  fields  of  their  forefathers  with  blood,  spread 
with  maniac  fury  sentiments  of  disorganization  ;  pro- 
nounced   the    authenticated    statutes    of    government 
unconstitutional,  tyrannical  and  oppressive  ;  encouraged 
by  treasonable  resolutions  hostile  opposition  to  the  laws, 
and   by  forcible    violations,   rendered  inefficient  those 
pacificly  coercive  measures  which  the  assembled  repre- 
sentatives of  the  sovereign  people  have  deemed  abun- 
dantly adequate  for  effecting  those  important  objects 
which  induced  their  adoption.     When  with  appropriate 
and  dignified  seventy,  official  animadversion  falls  on 
the  guilty  partizans  of  rebellion,  with  insolent  effrontery 
they  appeal  to  the  immortal  heroes  and  sages  of  the  revo- 
lution, for  exculpatory  examples,  in  justification  of  their 
indefensible    conduct.       Profanation     unparralleled !  — 
Because  Washington,  Hancock,  and  Adams,  with 
their  ever  memora*ble  compatriots  in  glory,  resisted  with 
Spartan  intrepidity,   the  tyrannical  impositions  of  an  all 
grasping  monarchy,  in  which  the  citizens  of  these  United 
States  had  no  participation,  where  they  were  not  repre- 
sented, in  the  councils  of  which  they  had  no  voice,  to 
which  they  disclaimed  all  allegiance  ;  who  had  appealed 
in  vain  to  its  relentless  sovereign  and  subservient  Par- 
liament for  redress  of  grievances ;  shall  the  members  of 


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a  republic,  over  which  a  government  has  been  estab- 
lished by  the  declared  and  common  consent  of  all ;  under 
which  their  rulers  are  periodically  responsible  for  their 
official  conduct,  thus  with  impunity  reflect  back  their 
own  merited  disgrace,  and  stamp  with  damning  infamy 
the  untarnished  lustre  of  our  sainted  worthies?  Forbid 
it  reason.  The  demanding  gratitude  of  emancipated 
millions  will  indignantly  avert  the  unhallowed  attempt. 

When  characters  who  were  pre-eminently   distin- 
guished for  their  most  honorable  services  during  that 
perilous  struggle  for  national  freedom  and  independence  ; 
whose  political  integrity  and  sterling  worth,  still  renders 
them  venerable  examples  of  patriotic  virtue,  are   desig- 
nated as  our  chief  magistrates,  and  appointed  the  guar- 
dians of  those  invaluable  privileges,   which  their  inde„ 
fatigable  zeal  and  laborious  exertions  tended  to  secure } 
the  destinies  of  the  Union  and  the  Commonwealth  can 
not  fail  of  being  propitious  to  the  advancement  of  indi- 
vidual happiness  and  the  public   good.     When  such 
illustrious  personages  call  upon  us  to  watch  with  unre- 
mitting vigilance  the  ruinous  proceedings  of  domestic 
malcontents,  it  becomes  the  bounden  duty  of  every  citi- 
zen who  is  ambitious  of  transmitting  unimpaired  those 
peculiar  advantages  which  he  now  enjoys,   to  his  latest 
posteritv,   to  vindicate  our  civil  rulers  from  the  foul 
aspersion  of  slanderous  detraction,   and  use  his  utmost 
endeavors  for  the  establishment  of  public  tranquility. 
We  are  obliged  by  every  principle  of  national  policy  to 
support  a  government  which  has  been  uniformly  directed 
to  the  advancement  of  commerce,  agriculture,  manu- 
factures, literature,   and  the  internal  improvements  of 
our  extensive  territorv. 


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The  angry  passions  of  unprincipled  individuals  may 
for  a  period  disturb  the  general  harmony  of  these  confed- 
erated States,  but  when  cool,  unprejudiced  reason  shall 
blazon  in  the  vivid  colors  of  resistless  truth,  the  disas- 
trous consequences  of  exasperating  denunciations,  the 
lowering  tempests  of  faction,  will  retire  before  its  dissi- 
pating effulgence. 

Friends  and  fellow-citizens  of  the  Bunker-Hill 
Association,  who,  for  "the  purpose  of  celebrating  the 
great  anniversary  of  our  national  independence,  and  of 
guarding  and  perpetuating  the  well  merited  fame  of  the 
worthies  of  the  revolution,  and  of  all  other  friends  to 
their  country,  who  have  since  contributed,  or  may  here- 
after contribute,  to  the  permanent  union  and  harmony  of 
these  States,  have  solemnly  pledged  yourselves  to  pro- 
mote and  encourage  an  emulation  in  virtue,  and  what- 
ever may  tend  to  the  permanence  and  strength  of  our 
Federal  Constitution,  and  to  the  glory  and  happiness  of 
these  United  States,"  to  you  I  appeal,  in  the  names  of 
those  immolated  heroes  who  poured  out  their  blood  in 
the  service  of  their  country,  by  that  sacred  charter  of 
our  rights,  which  unites  under  one  social  compact  the 
whole  people  of  confederated  America,  I  conjure  you  to 
perform  the  high  duties  which  you  have  so  magnani- 
mously undertaken.  If  patriots  in  all  ages  of  the  world 
have  not  set  so  high  a  value  on  civil  liberty  ;  if  religious 
freedom  and  security  in  the  rights  of  conscience  are 
desirable  ;  if  to  live  under  the  best  organized  system  of 
free  government  which  any  country  was  ever  blessed 
with,  is  an  inestimable  boon,  then  have  the  citizens  'of 
the  United  States  more  powerful  motives, '  more  strong 
inducements  to  rally  round  the  ark  of  their  political 


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safety,  the  Constitution,  than  any  people  on  this 
globe  have,  or  ever  had.  Here  no  unfeeling  despot 
wrings  from  the  hard  hands  of  honest  industry  the  accu- 
mulated fruits  of  laborious  years ;  no  clerical  institution 
immures  within  the  gloomy  walls  of  a  sacriligious 
inquisition  that  upright  man  who  worships  the  Supreme 
Ruler  of  the  Universe  agreeably  to  the  dictates  of  his 
own  conscience,  uncontrouled  by  the  arbitrary  mandates 
of  bigoted  superstition,  or  the  appalling  horrors  of  an 
oto-de-fee. 

All  our  right,  our  lives  and  fortunes,  are  confided  to 
a  government  which  is  under  the  supreme  controul  of 
the  sovereign  people. 

Blessed  with  a  soil  which  embraces  all  the  vast  variety 
of  climes  from  the  polar  regions  to  the  torrid  zone,  we 
are  enabled  to  extend  the  wide  circle  of  national  inde- 
pendence, until  it  includes  all  the  multifarious  advan- 
tages of  every  realm. 

If  foreign  nations  compel  us  to  fall  back  on  our  own 
inexhaustible  resources,  we  shall  acquire  that  perfect 
independence  which  will  render  the  existence  of  any 
other  kingdom  unnecessary  for  its  support ;  extending 
the  broad  basis  of  a  Republic,  which  shall  flourish  in 
unrivalled  excellence  and  prosperity,  although  bounded 
within  the  huge  circumference  of  an  impregnable  bar- 
rier, high  piled  to  heaven's  concave,  impassable  and 
eternal. 

But  the  citizens  of  these  United  States  have  such  an 
expansive  and  illimitable  spirit  of  independence ;  so 
deeply  implanted  are  the  sterling  principles  of  freedom 
in  any  patriot  breast,  that-they  will  not  be  circumscribed 
within  the  slavish  limits  of  foreign  proscription — tamely 


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submit  to  unprovoked  infraction  of  their  rights,  or  suf- 
fer with  impunity  an  ignominious  stain  on  their  national 
honor.  During  those  sanguinary  conflicts  which  have 
deluged  Europe  in  blood,  we  have  remained  within  that 
awful  verge  of  war,  on  which  we  are  now  placed  by  the 
combined  outrages  of  Gallic  despotism,  and  the  preda- 
tory spoilations  of  imperious  Britain.  If  we  are  again 
compelled  to  take  up  arms  for  the  vindication  of  our 
rights,  our  valorous  countrymen  will  display  that  unre- 
laxing  ardor  and  heroic  zeal,  which  triumphed  over  the 
boasted  discipline  of  experienced  veterans,  and  entwined 
around  the  warrior's  brow  the  never  fading  wreath  of 
victory.  The  self  stiled  lords  of  the  ocean  will  not  find 
the  retaliating  thunders  of  our  navy  borne  on  the  silenced 
batteries  of  a  Chesapeake.  The  imperial  conqueror  will 
not  plant  his  blood  stained  eagle  on  our  shores,  or  trav- 
erse the  extent  of  these  independent  republics  in  victori- 
ous triumph  ,  each  stream  will  be  more  impassable  than 
the  Danube  ;  unlike  the  towering  Pyrennes  or  frozen 
Alps,  every  mountain  will  present  a  barrier  unscaleable 
as  the  battlements  of  heavem 

That  we  should  remain  happy,  united,  virtuous  and 
free,  an  exalted  spirit  of  liberty  should  be  excised  in 
every  breast;  not  that  turbulent  spirit  which  puts  at 
defiance  the  constituted  authorities  of  an  elective  and 
impartial  government,  tramples  on  its  laws,  provokes 
licentious  rebellion,  stimulates  to  deeds  of  treasonable 
desperation,  and  involves  us  by  false  and  inflammatory 
declamations  in  all  the  complicated,  awful  and  bloody 
miseries  of  civil  war;  but  that  generous  and  noble 
spirit,  which  willingly  sacrifices  every  personal  consid* 


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era t ion,  when  incompatible  with  national  honor  and  the 
general  interest  of  the  public  weal. 

To  perpetuate  and  secure  the  blessings  of  freedom, 
we  must  liberally  diffuse  the  means  of  universal  infor- 
mation. 

It  was  by  a  criminal,  short  sighted  inattention  to  that 
primary  and  important  object,  which  must  ever  consti- 
tute the  vital  strength  of  all  republics,  that  they  have 
uniformly  degenerated  into  despotism. — Let  the  citizens 
of  the  United  States  become  enlightened  by  the  general 
dissemination  of  science  ;  let  them  be  deeply  impressed 
with  the  unparralleled  advantages  which  they  now 
enjoy,  and  contrast  their  enviable  situation  with  the 
oppressed  and  impoverished  subjects  of  the  trans-at- 
lantic  empires ;  stimulate  their  adventurous  disposi- 
tions ;  give  energy  to  our  manufactures,  and  our  hills 
will  be  covered  with  the  flocks  of  the  Pyrennes,  our 
plains  whitened  by  the  fleeces  of  Andalusia,  and  our 
freighted  commerce  will  traverse  every  sea  with  the 
increasing  harvests  o£  extended  agriculture  and  the 
domestic  fabrics  of  mechanical  ingenuity. 


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